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Esperanto

/ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ//ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/

Esperanto proper noun: an international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.

Proper noun

Esperanto

  1. An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
    • Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000...2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025, pages 2-3
    • Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880)...2026 June 28 (last accessed), Nathan Sanders, “A primer on constructed languages”, in University of Toronto, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2025, page 7
  2. (figuratively) Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
    • The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.
    • [Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193

Esperanto meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Gujarati

Esperanto in Hindi

auxiliary language
एस्पेरान्तो esperānto

Esperanto in Tamil

auxiliary language
எஸ்பெராண்டோ esperāṇṭō

Esperanto in Malayalam

auxiliary language
എസ്പെരാന്തോ esperāntō

Esperanto in Gujarati

auxiliary language
એસ્પેરાન્તો esperānto
More languagesFewer languages
Esperanto in Assamese
এস্পেৰাণ্ট ভাষা esperanto bhaxa
Esperanto in Tagalog
Esperanto
Esperanto in Arabic
إِسْبِرَانْتُو ʔisbirāntū
Esperanto in Persian
اسپرانتو esperânto
Esperanto in Thai
เอสเปรันโต àyt-bpay-ran-dtoh, ภาษาเอสเปรันโต paa-săa àyt-bpay-ran-dtoh
Esperanto in Vietnamese
quốc tế ngữ, tiếng quốc tế ngữ, thế giới ngữ
Dhivehi
އެސްޕެރަންތޯ esperan̊tō

Examples of Esperanto in a sentence

  • I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal, page 6A:
  • […]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times:
  • Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2021:
  • Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran.2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s, The History Press, →ISBN:

Origin of Esperanto

A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.

Words formed from Esperanto

Words that rhyme with Esperanto

Questions about Esperanto

What does Esperanto mean?
Esperanto means an international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
What is Esperanto in Hindi?
Esperanto in Hindi is एस्पेरान्तो (esperānto). See Esperanto meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Esperanto in a sentence?
I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.
What part of speech is Esperanto?
Esperanto is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Esperanto?
Esperanto is pronounced /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/ (UK).

Words near Esperanto in the dictionary

  1. Esperantization
  2. Esperantize
  3. Esperantized
  4. Esperantizes
  5. Esperantizing
  6. Esperanto
  7. Esperantological
  8. Esperantologist
  9. Esperantologists
  10. Esperantology
  11. Esperantophone

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Esperanto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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